Times aren’t looking too optimistic for the gray wolves that inhabit Alaska’s rugged Unimak island on the eastern tip of the Aleutians. Region:  Alaska Read more

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by JGHurst, Flickr.

When one person says something, it can often be overlooked — when 50,000 people say something, well, then everyone listens. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listening. In late September they announced they will conduct a wilderness review for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This review is the first step to getting a full presidential recommendation to Congress that the Arctic Refuge be permanently protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Read more

Marbled Murrelet. Courtesy USFWS.

A tiny Northwestern seabird got some great news on Jan 20. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service declared that the marbled murrelet is still in need of federal protection and declined petitions to remove the bird from the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service cited declining populations in Oregon, Washington, and California as proof that the marbled murrelet was not ready to be removed from the protective measures that have been in place since the early 1990s. Read more